This summer I’ver had the pleasure of working with the talented film-maker Toby Paton. He asked me to write and narrate a script to his documentary The Bed, which is about an accident and emergency trolley.

The documentary gets its world premiere on Channel 4 tomorrow night - that’s Friday 6 August at 7.30pm. I’d [...]

This weekend Dominic Maxwell kindly featured me in The Times. They run a regular column called ‘The Secret of Comedy’.’ Each week a comedian gives his/her view on what makes good comedy. Some people do this quite seriously (timing, punchines) others are more ‘jokey’ in their responses (the suit, hecklers). I guess mine was more [...]

A huge thanks to everyone who voted for Crash! Bang! Wallow! I am very proud to say that we won the National Film Board of Canada short film competition at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

I’m curating a couple of really exciting gigs at The Udderbelly this summer. The first in June features Laura Dockrill, Kate Tempest and Edinburg Comedy Award Winner Tim Key. The second in July features Byron Vincent plus Thick of It star Chris Addison. Addison wrote a great book of ‘cautionary tales’ a few years ago [...]

I’m doing a special one-off gig in Manchester this week at The Albert Club.

Why not come along?

Thursday 8 April 2010

Doors 7.30pm | Show 8pm

Tickets: £6 (£5 members)

The Albert Club

39-41 Old Lansdowne Rd | West Didsbury | Manchester | M20 2NU

Tel: 0161 445 1056

George Szirtes, the multi-award winning poet and translator, has given my book - High Performance - a really nice review on the blog-zine Ink, Sweat and Tears. You can read it here. You can buy the book here.

I’ve been reviewed by The Argus, Brighton’s main local paper, about 4 times and this is first time I’ve wanted to share one with you. Last year’s review began: “If the hype is to be believed then Luke Wright is performance poetry’s great white hope.” Talk about starting with an agenda. Anyway, this year’s was [...]

I’m in Cranbrook, a quaint little Kent town a few miles south of Royal Tunbridge Wells. I performed Petty Concerns on Tuesday night to a lovely crowd of about 50 people and yesterday I worked with students from the local Grammar school to prepare for a poetry slam, which is being held this morning [...]

The Blue Suede Sporran Club blew my tiny mind.

Fifty of the Square & Compasses’ locals crammed into a small room with an open fire (perhaps unnecessary) and the best atmosphere I’ve experienced at a gig since the late night Aisle16 at Port Eliot a few years back. It was just superb.

I’ve been buzzing [...]

I’m back home at my mum and dad’s house. I was hoping for a lie-in to make up for yesterday’s insomnia but no such luck. I’ve been up since seven. Tonight I’m off to Wareham in Dorset to do a gig with Elvis McGonagall at his sporadically run Blue Suede Sporran Club. Elvis and I have been [...]

A bout of insomnia finds me here at 5.30am writing a blog in the light of my laptop screen. This room is too hot, my nose is too blocked and it’s becoming increasing apparent that these decongestion tablets have caffeine in them.

I’m in Aberystwyth. It’s my first time here. I’ve always wanted to go. I nearly went [...]

Hey gang. Next week, I’m doing this …